Theatre
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A Doll’s House Part 2
Ibsen Sequel by Lucas Hnath
By: - Feb 14th, 2019The Lucas Hnath sequel to Ibsen A Doll's House-Part 2 was a hit on Broadway. The door slammer is making the rounds of regional theatre. This production runs at TheaterWorks in Connecticut through February 24.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2019
S. Epatha Merkerson and Uma Thurman to Star
By: - Feb 13th, 2019Yet again Williamstown Theatre Festival mixes old and new for its 2019 season.
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Moby Dick a Whale of an Opera
At Opera San José
By: - Feb 12th, 2019Although Moby-Dick adheres to the continuous melody mode, many striking set pieces punctuate the score. Much beauty also derives from the orchestral interludes which reflect smooth seas as well as storm with equal competence. But the most striking pieces are the many rousing choruses.
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The Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau
At Victory Gardens Theater
By: - Feb 12th, 2019The pipeline in Dominique Morisseau’s play is the school-to-prison path followed too often by young people from disadvantaged backgrounds because of harsh school and police policies.
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Opera Philadelphia's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Acclaimed Robert Carsen Production Makes US Debut
By: - Feb 12th, 2019Opera Philadelphia has mounted a delightful production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The company reminds us, as it does so often, that opera can be highly entertaining and occasionally hilariously funny. Created by Robert Carsen thirty years ago in Aix-en-Provence, the stage is full of royal blues and lime forest greens until all is resolved in white. A new moon hangs in the sky.
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Honky Tonk Laundry by Roger Bean
At Coyote StageWorks of Palm Springs
By: - Feb 11th, 2019Coyote StageWorks of Palm Springs delivers an early Valentine to fans and lovers of Country Music with a country-western comedy romp and hoot called “Honky Tonk Laundry”, written and directed by prolific playwright Roger Bean. It all comes out in the wash.
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A Reductive My Fair Lady
Compact Production at Central Square Theatre
By: - Feb 11th, 2019With the iconic music of My Fair Lady deleted this stripped down production, with a multi-tasking cast, gets at the essence of Shaw's masterpiece. Directed by Eric Tucker of Bedlam it is on view at Cantral Square Theatre in Cambridge. Much is done by few.
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Late Company by Jordan Tannahill
At New Conservatory Theatre Center
By: - Feb 09th, 2019In Jordan Tannahill’s Late Company, that time has passed. Debora and Michael’s teenage son, Joel, has committed suicide. Although the obvious path for the parents is to suffer in silence and live with the memory of the lost loved one, Debora is driven by a need to find closure. That target would be someone who can be implicated for the condition that she feels had caused Joel to take his own life.
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Red Rex at Steep Theatre
Rightlynd Neighborhood in Ike Holter’s play
By: - Feb 08th, 2019Red Rex, beautifully directed by Jonathan Berry, poses the contentious question of who gets to tell the story. It’s a play about a Chicago storefront theater staged by one of Chicago’s foremost storefront theaters in a space that used to be a grocery store.
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Barrington Stage Company 2019
Season Opens on May 25
By: - Feb 08th, 2019Barrington Stage Company (BSC) will feature four world premieres including the new musical from BSC’s Musical Theatre Lab, Fall Springs by Niko Tsakalakos and Peter Sinn Nachtrieb; America v. 2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of The American Negro by Stacey Rose; American Underground by Brent Askari; and Ragtag Theatre’s Hansel and Gretel, commissioned by BSC.
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New Theater Company In South Florida
A Band Of Actors Produced Experimental Work
By: - Feb 07th, 2019A Band of Actors theater company has joined the South Florida theatrical scene. The Delray Beach-based troupe is performing an absurdist play in the vein of Beckett titled Momo & Toto (Together Forever in Perpetuity). Troupe to focus on experimental work, shy away from traditional, naturalistic "kitchen sink" dramas.
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August Strindberg’s Creditors
Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, California
By: - Feb 04th, 2019Threads of Strindberg's Creditors are woven into later hostile relationship dramas from Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Indeed, Strindberg publicly accused Ibsen of basing Hedda on Tekla
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Jeffrey Lo’s New Comic Farce
Spending the End of the World on OK Cupid
By: - Jan 31st, 2019In Jeffrey Lo’s new comic farce, Spending the End of the World on OK Cupid, a prophet of doom named Alfred Winters had accurately predicted “The Vanishing” in which half of humanity recently disappeared at once without a trace. Now Winters has assured those who have survived that the world will end at midnight on the day that the action of the play takes place.
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Meister Debuts at the Metropolitan Opera
Don Giovanni Gets a Special Spin
By: - Jan 30th, 2019The conductor Cornelius Meister is a fast-rising star in Europe. Having just finished a lengthy run at the helm of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, he is now the music director o the State Opera and the State Orchestra in the German city of Stuttgart. On January 30, Mr. Meister will make his debut at the Met. His task: conducting one of Mozart's finest and darkest operas: the deliciously twisted Don Giovanni. This week, Superconductor found time to sit down with the maestro to talk all things dramma giocoso.
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Shakespeare & Company 2019
Something Old Something New
By: - Jan 30th, 2019There will be four plays by Shakespeare. Contemporary plays include Pulitzer Prize finalist The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan; Tony Award nominated play The Children by Lucy Kirkwood; Pulitzer Prize winner Topdog/Underdog by MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient Suzan-Lori Parks; and Time Stands Still by Obie Award winner Donald Margulies.
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American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford
Closed Since 1989 Now Up in Smoke
By: - Jan 27th, 2019In 1955 with funding from select patrons The American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut was launched. It was the third major Shakespeare festival conflated with the name Stratford, the home of the Bard. Initially there was less competition in the region for its season of summer and student oriented productions. Relying on a few with deep pockets the company failed to seek a broad base of support for its 1600 seat venue and lavish productions. When founding donors died in the 1970s decline set in with the company ceasing operations in 1989. The property was abandoned and decrepit when recently it went up in smoke.
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Looped at the Desert Rose Playhouse
Judith Chapman as Tallulah Bankhead
By: - Jan 25th, 2019It’s pure Judith Chapman totally immersed and completely in command within the skin, body movement, quirks, and tics of Tallulah Bankhead that reaches out and grabs the audience turning them into acolytes of an actor who knows how to take the stage and perform her special magic.
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When We Were Young and Unafraid
Sarah Treem Produced by Custom Made Theatre
By: - Jan 25th, 2019Why do women make self-defeating decisions when virtually certain of the dark consequences? These are among the questions explored in Sarah Treem’s entertaining and sometimes surprising When We Were Young and Unafraid.
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The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno
At Chicago's Theater Wit
By: - Jan 24th, 2019Playwright Will Eno seems to want us to sympathize with these four people but none of them are fully drawn characters.
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Maestro at the Duke Theater
Toscanini in All His Glory
By: - Jan 23rd, 2019Toscanini is the subject of Maestro, now playing at the Duke Theater in New York through February 6. Eve Wolf has staged Toscanini’s late life, mixing in live music that he often performed, now played by a quartet and pianist on stage. Director Donald T. Sanders has woven these elements together to provide the texture of Toscanini’s life.
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One County Film Company
South Florida Brothers' New Movie Business
By: - Jan 22nd, 2019Brothers Andrew and Tim Davis' appearance as siblings in True West inspired a film-making collaboration. Work is under way on a second feature film even while the first has experienced multiple showings. The Davis brothers have big plans for their One County Film Company.
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Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon
By TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Jan 22nd, 2019Dramas such as Frost/Nixon – modern history as theater – present challenges. Those who lived through whatever subject at hand may feel they remember the facts well enough that a rehash will offer little interest. Those who sense there will be a political tilt to the play that doesn’t conform with their own may resist attending. In the case of Frost/Nixon relatively little time is dedicated to the interviews that were on television as part of the public history.
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Awake at the Barrow Group
K. Lorrel Manning's Delicious Look at America Today
By: - Jan 21st, 2019In Awake, K. Lorrel Manning has created a triumphant piece which shakes sensibilities, upturns stereotypes and makes us smile at the sheer conundrum of being human. This is an entertaining , smoothly written and directed script . Nine skits with fifteen players are like leaves in the book of everyday America's s social and political issues as they inhabit our lives.
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Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega
At City Lit Theater
By: - Jan 21st, 2019Lope de Vega is considered Spain’s second most important author, following only Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. De Vega is said to have written 500 plays, 3000 sonnets, seven novels and novellas.
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What We’re Up Against by Therese Rebeck
Revival of 2011 Play in Chicago
By: - Jan 21st, 2019Playwright Theresa Rebeck is a master of dialogue and never hesitates to portray the bad manners of her contemporaries. Her 2011 play, What We’re Up Against, just opened as the inaugural production of Compass Theatre, a new Chicago Equity company.
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